Primary drug-resistant tuberculosis in Hanoi, Viet Nam: present status and risk factors.

Objective: To estimate the prevalence of primary resistance to the drugs in the basic treatment regimen for tuberculosis in treatment-naïve patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and

To gain insight into the epidemiology of childhood drug resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) in China that has the second largest burden of TB and the largest number of multidrug resis-

Objective: To determine the incidence of active tuberculosis (TB) among individuals cohabiting with patients infected with susceptible and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

The primary objective of this study was to provide infor- mation on primary drug resistance and other molecular characteristics of HIV among volunteers from the down-

In the present study, MDR-TB, defined as resistance to at least isoniazid and rifampicin was responsible for 14% of the overall number of TB cases and 69% of the drug-resistant

his is in agreement with the indings of a study on primary drug resistance for irst-line TB treatment in Manaus that showed no diference in the distribution of cases sensitive

of this study was to estimate the prevalence of latent and active TB infection and to describe the risk factors associated with latent TB among inmates in a jail in

Objective: To estimate the prevalence of primary resistance to the drugs in the basic treatment regimen for tuberculosis in treatment-naïve patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and